From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: refactor global page-sized bitmaps
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:13:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160927141306.GA26260@potion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd7d2e5f-9d34-8e33-602d-8f0acccb1f7e@redhat.com>
2016-09-23 11:35+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 23/09/2016 01:18, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> We've had 10 page-sized bitmaps that were being allocated and freed one
>> by one when we could just use a cycle and MSR bitmaps had a lot of
>> useless code lying around.
>>
>> This patch
>> * enumerates vmx bitmaps and uses an array to store them
>> * replaces vmx_enable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic() with a condition
>> * joins vmx_msr_disable_intercept_msr_{read,write}_x2apic()
>> * renames x2apic_apicv_inactive msr_bitmaps to x2apic and original
>> x2apic bitmaps to x2apic_apicv
>
> It's almost like this could be split in four patches! :) Seriously, I
> like it very much but it's very hard to review.
Yeah, sorry, v2 will be split.
> Also, while it's a good idea to keep the bitmaps in an array,
> vmx_bitmaps[vmread_bitmap] is not very readable. Please make the enum
> uppercase, and possibly add
>
> #define vmread_bitmap (vmx_bitmaps[VMREAD_BITMAP])
This will make it much easier to review, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-22 23:18 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: refactor global page-sized bitmaps Radim Krčmář
2016-09-23 9:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-23 9:41 ` Wanpeng Li
2016-09-27 14:13 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
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